Home – NECC-1009 Agenda – NC-140 Agenda – Registration – Hotel – Travel – Contact – River Roots
WELCOME
8:00 Breakfast and Welcome- Dr. John Grande, Director or the Rutgers Snyder Farm
8:15 Introduction, Opening Remarks and Agenda Approval - Rob Crassweller, Win Cowgill
8:30 Administrative Advisor Comments- Steve Goodwin
Fiscal matters - credit and objectives for continuing as a Coordinating Committee versus Regional Research Project
Open discussion on this topic- can we afford to do replicated plantings, do we need to do them, what iss the best way to proceed? Rob Crassweller and Win Cowgill
9:00 Local Retail Apple Cultivars – Duane Greene
9:30 Heirloom Apple Cultivars – Diane Miller
9:50 Pear Cultivars – Richard Bell
10:15 Break – Coffee – Apple Showcase and Tasting
11:10 Peach Cultivars – Bill Shane, Joe Goffreda, Jerry Frecon
11:30 Database for Cultivar Evaluation Demonstration - Jon Clements,
11:45 Web Site- Do we need one, Continue with NE183.org and the NIMS NEC-1009 website? Win Cowgill
12:00 Lunch
12:45 Patent Issues and Club Varieties – Rob Crassweller, Susan Brown (via conference call?), Joe Goffeda, Jon Clements
1:30 Walk through Snyder Farm Plots-Win Cowgill
Coffee all afternoon when we get back
2:15 Hard Cider Cultivars – Ian Merwin
2:45 Disease Resistant Cultivars – Dave Rosenberger, Keith Yoder
3:15 Plum Cultivars – Renae Moran3:45 Other Tree Fruit – Apricots, Cherries
4:00 Wrap Up / Marching Orders / Next Meeting / Chair elect ?
4:30 Leave for home
Dinner on Your own for those staying over, Flemington area - Win will have suggestions
Note: the times for each fruit crop section are flexible, some more take more or less time than posted.